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Letters: Street projects need to include Terrace Drive

Las Cruces Sun-News
Published 6:45 p.m. MT Sept. 5, 2018

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Street projects need to include Terrace Drive

I just finished reading the list of streets that will be resurfaced, and I didn't see the name of the street that I have written about several times. But I guess the city manager and the person that decides what streets to resurface hasn’t read it or hasn't taken the time to drive on it.

The name of the street is Terrace Drive and the section that needs to be resurfaced is between University Drive and Telshor. It was done in three sections and the three paving companies that did the work didn't know beans about paving streets. It is a mess.

I am asking the city manager and the person in charge of street resurfacing to please take the time to drive on it. I drive on Terrace every day, and my tires are take a beating.

I suggest Mr. Murray is being hypocritical. Let’s start with his premise that Brennan deserves to have his clearance revoked by “continuously ranting and bashing President Trump publicly.” Mr. Murray had a differing view of someone’s right to political speech when, in a letter to the editor on May 10, 2017, he complained that audience members (whom he “assumed” were Muslims) vocally disrupted a speech by David Horowitz at NMSU.

Horowitz recently acknowledged that his right-wing organization is labeled a “hate group” by the Southern Poverty Law Center. Horowitz believes President Obama “is a Muslim” and a “pretend American.” As for Brenann’s 1976 voting history, Horowitz worked as a fundraiser in the 1970’s for the Black Panther Party. People’s views evolve, apparently, because Horowitz now publicly aligns himself with KKK members and white supremacists while Brennan defends democracy and kills terrorists like Osama Bin Laden.

Mr. Murray again took up the cause of protecting conservative free speech in a letter he wrote August 7, 2017, in which he declared most terrorists are Muslims (which has been consistently debunked) and blamed liberals for a protest at a Vermont college in which a professor, Allison Stanger, was physically injured when students there objected to a speech by Charles Murray, a social scientist who believes race is linked to intelligence.

But according to Professor Stanger, blame for the violent protest is on President Trump. She wrote afterward in the New York Times that Mr. Trump has “demonized Muslims as terrorists and dehumanized many groups of marginalized people.”